INTERACTIVE



DRIFTNET, 2006


DriftNet is a screen based interactive graphic score designed for creating structure in improvised ensemble performance. DriftNet doesn’t make sound, instead, it listens and directs.
The front-end, created in Flash, displays the different shapes you see along the time-line. These shapes act as musical directives. A play-head scans the image to locate the performer on the time-line.
The back-end, created in Max MSP, uses audio analysis techniques to listen to the performers amplitude, pitch, and durrations of each musical event. Over the course of the performance the images situated along the time-line move depending on the data gathered by the analysis engine.

This project was created as part of my thesis work at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU.